The traditional welcome to new students arriving at the AA, for the launch of the 2008/09 academic year. On Friday 26th I’ll give my ‘AA to Z: A (New) User’s Guide to the Architectural Association’ introduction to the greatest school in the world.
—August, 2008
Basel, CH
A day in Basle at the Swiss Museum of Architecture, to have a look at Oliver Domiesen’s (AA Dipl 13 Unit Master) current exhibition on contemporary ornament in architecture
—Seoul
‘From Design to Information: Archietcture v. 2.0′
Along with three of my tutors from the AA — Valentin Bostjes van Beek, Peter Ferreto, and Ricardo de Ostes — I presented a short overview of the AA School to the staff at the renown Seoul architectural office, Space Group. My topic: the convergence of distributed design sensibilities and networked design and creative platforms […]
—Pagu Book City
‘Prototyping the (Border) City’
A day after my arrival in Korea for a brief visit to the AA & SA’s current Visiting School Programme, I gave a modified version of my prototyping lecture; on the contemporary and modern problem of designing the city. The AA is 15 kilometers from the border with North Korea this week, with 60 visiting […]
—August, 2008
Space Magazine Interview
An interview with journalists from Space Magazine, the Seoul-based journal of architecture. Topics included the contemporary convergence of research-based activities that connect architectural schools and offices in new and unexpected ways today.
—18 August, 2008
Seoul, Korea ‘Against Form’
This short lecture at the Seoul Headquarters of the Space Group, one of Korea’s foremost architectural and space planning offices, surveyed three key topics in architectural culture today: the rise of ‘ambient’ forms of urbanism; the proliferation of networked design systems and their effects on related architectural concepts of form, design and process; and the […]
Writing Now
‘Future Non-Future’
September, 2008
September, 2008
I’m sketching out the initial curatorial statement for our autumn show on the unbuilt architecture of London.
Writing Now:
‘Kuma’s Disappearance’
September, 2008
My introduction to our English translation of Kengo Kuma’s ‘Anti-Object’ book, due out in the Autumn.